To better understand present-day housing discrimination, we looked at 138 formerly redlined cities and found most were still segregated -- just like they were designed to be.

White men manage 97% of all hedge fund assets.

Just 1.4% of America's wealth is handled by asset management firms that are owned by women and/or people of color as of September 2021, even though there is zero difference in performance.

Beauty is an ever-changing goalpost that has everything do with race, class and power. Learn about the western colonization of the beauty industry and how it's shaped standards in the East and among Latinas, including driving patterns of disordered eating.

On this episode of Now & Then, “Projecting America at the Olympics,” Heather and Joanne frame the current Tokyo Olympics alongside historical examples of American cultural diplomacy. They trace efforts to appeal to France in the Revolutionary Period, the rise of World’s Fairs, and the controversies that accompanied Jesse Owens’ 1936 Olympics dominance in Berlin and the 1968 Black Power salute by medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos. What do these earlier negotiations say about American self-definition, particularly given the contemporary Olympics controversy over Simone Biles’ decision to withdraw from portions of the gymnastics competition?

A new paper heats up an old debate.

The United States is on track to be a majority-minority nation by 2044. But census data show most of our neighbors are the same race.

A cadence of practices and training is designed to make sure people’s identities are respected in the workplace. [...]Read More...